Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-11-09
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THE GALLONS In SIGHT.
INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH With CA
PAciTY FOR SEVEN.

LinRg and His Cell Subjected to searol
Protection Provided In Case of Trou
bIs-A Minister spends tho Day witt
the Anarchists.
CHICAGO, Nov. 8.-Mr. William Salter
who has been working In company with
Fl. D. Lloyd to secure the signatures O.
mutation Of the sentence against the an
archists, asked Spies to say plainly what
he knew about the bombs found In
Lingg's cell. Spies wrote the following,
and to it are appended the signatures OF
AAielden and
Chicago, Nov. Z, 1S67-Mr. Salter: IT
is useless for me and my friends to say
that We had no knowledge of anything OF
the kind. No sane man would have
bombs in his cell, or countenance any
such a thing In a cell, Think ofit-subject
TO search at any momentand at all times.
The first %fntination / received of the
matter came from Sheriff Matson last
evening. / could not believe IL at first,
and can hardly believe 1t now. l have
not spoken to Lingg for I think nine
months. don't know much of him, but
j think that he is a monomaniac. Had
only seen him once or twice before we
were put together and charged with
conspiracy Idon't believe that a sim
gle n OF the other prisoners had even
us much as a suspicion, for otherwise
they would undoubtedly have reasoned
the man out of his folly. What use was
he going to make Of the shells? Throw
them into the Jail? What intention,
what object, could there have been In
such m undertaking. / repeat, no sane
mar would be capable of such u thing.
Lingg,as far as can judge him, seeks to
be martyrcd, and, to be candid, would
like the rest of us to go with him. Did
he put those instruments in his cells that
they might be found7 This is the cues
tion | have asked myself. If he had
them there for any purpose, this is the
only one that looks plausible to me. He
wants TO die, thinking therehy to help
the cause of labor. But he wanted us to
die, also. Perhaps he thought that the
best,;and sirest way to bring this about
was to place a few bombs In his cell. /
have never met as peculiar
"a man as he before in
my life. and for almost a year | have
considered him u monomaniac; and have
had nothing to do with him. You ask
me to condemn this action. 1t is useless
to condemn the action of an %irresponsi-
BILE man. If any n holds us. or any Of
us, responsible for Lingg's deeds, then I
can see why we should not be held re-.
spnnsibie for any mischief, whatsoever,
committed in the outer world, and it has
actually come to that. We are being
made the scapegoat for everything. Very
siscerefy yours, A. SPIEs.n
I'm the above ! concur fully,
MICHAEL ScHwAB.n
= also concur in the above statements,
IS. FIELDEN.n
A statement was also made by Fischer
az follows;
~ n don't know what to think Of II. I
cannot comprehend that Iingg intended
TO take the lives Of the Jail officers, who,
In every respect, have treated us very
kindly. Neither do ] believe that Lingg
wanted to commit suicide, because he
possesses too much courage. The whole
affair is a puzzle to me. May my fate be-
what IT may, / shall be grateful to the
Jail officials for their kind treatment to
the last.